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12-04-2016, 06:34 PM
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Rich Chen's SVX
Reached out to Rich Chen who bought my '94 emerald pearl a couple of years ago. Car is still running well. One of the Rota's cracked, and he replaced it with a different style Rota. I think they are an improvement. Here it is at Canepa's Cars and Coffee in Scott's Valley, CA.
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____________________________________________ 95 LS-i Red, 31,xxx; bone stock for now; Daily Driver 94 LS-i Emerald Pearl, 106,xxx,; 246 whp; Tomyx snorkus and HKS Cold air intake; PWR aluminum radiator, silicone hoses; Inline thermostat; enhanced coolant routing; external power steering and oil coolers; Phenolic intake manifold spacers; 2004 WRX 5 speed transmission; ACT Clutch Kit, Heavy Duty Pressure Plate, Lightweight flywheel, performance disc; Group N motor mounts; ‘07 WRX 4-pot front calipers, cryo-treated slotted Tribeca rotors; Hawk HPS ferro-carbon pads; Frozenrotor rear slotted rotors; SS brake lines, Axxis Ultimate pads; Rota Torque 17x8 wheels; 245/40-17 Bridgestone RE01-R's; Koni inserts with Ground Control coilovers, Eibach springs; K-Mac camber/caster adjustable strut mounts; Urethane swaybar bushings; Bontrager rear sway bar; Urethane differential bushing; Custom Whiteline adjustable rear lateral links; Outlaw Engineering forged underdrive pulley; custom grind Web intake and exhaust cams (11 mm lift, 250° duration); solid lifters; CP custom aluminum forged 11 to 1 pistons, Brian Crower coated SS intake & exhaust valves; Brian Crower upgraded springs w/ titanium retainers; NGK sparkplugs; RallyBob (Bob Legere) ported and polished cylinder heads; Eagle H-beam rods; ACL Bearings; Cometic Head gaskets; ARP head studs & fasteners; Hydra Nemesis EMS; Wideband O2 sensor; 740cc Injectors; Walbro 255lph fuel pump; Upgraded WRX starter; Equal length SS headers (3 into 1); dual Magnaflow cat converters; 2 into 1 into 2 SS exhaust with Bullet muffler; OT Fiberglass hood; Oil pressure gauge; Programmable shift light, 2017 Subaru Forester XT, metallic dark gray, 29,xxx 2005 Porsche 911 Turbo S Cabrio, 24,xxx 2006 Subaru Outback LL Bean, 166,xxx sold 92 LSL Dark Teal, Smallcar Shift Kit - sold Last edited by shotgunslade; 12-04-2016 at 06:34 PM. Reason: typos 
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12-09-2016, 03:50 PM
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Re: Rich Chen's SVX
Dan
How is Rich using the car? Tracking it? Daily driver? What are you driving these days? Cheers Bill
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Retired NASA Rocket Scientist Most famous NASA "Child" - OSIRIS-REx delivered samples from asteroid BENNU to Earth in Sept. 2023 Center Network Member #989 '92 Fully caged, 5 speed, waiting for its fully built EG33 '92 "Test Mule", 4:44 Auto, JDM 4:44 Rear Diff with Mech LSD, Tuned headers, Full one-off suspension '92(?) Laguna, 6 spd and other stuff (still at OT's place) My Locker
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12-12-2016, 12:51 PM
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Re: Rich Chen's SVX
Rich has not tracked it. His current track car is a Porsche 996 TT that the previous owner converted to RWD. He has about 20 cars of various kinds in a warehouse, including a Citroen SM, a Series 1 E-Type, a couple of Porsches, a couples of Alfas, a BMW 3.0CS, a Tesla roadster, an NSX, plus others.
My daily driver is the '95 Brilliant Red SVX I picked up with 16K+ miles and it now has 22k+ miles. Still stock. Spoke with Rich about first right of refusal if he ever decides to sell the '94 Emerald Pearl. It's got at least $30K in parts in it. Want to build another SVX when I retire in a couple of years. Lessons learned from the Emerald. No hard billet top-mounts. Spend the extra money at the tuner to get an emissions compliant alternate tune, switchable. Get some good race seats (spend the money), bolt-in roll-bar and harnesses. Don't know whether it would make sense to buy back the emerald and transfer all of the part to the Red, then pretty much returning the emerald to stock. My current toy car is a 2005 996 TT Cabrio. Black with palomino leather and a bicycle rack,
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____________________________________________ 95 LS-i Red, 31,xxx; bone stock for now; Daily Driver 94 LS-i Emerald Pearl, 106,xxx,; 246 whp; Tomyx snorkus and HKS Cold air intake; PWR aluminum radiator, silicone hoses; Inline thermostat; enhanced coolant routing; external power steering and oil coolers; Phenolic intake manifold spacers; 2004 WRX 5 speed transmission; ACT Clutch Kit, Heavy Duty Pressure Plate, Lightweight flywheel, performance disc; Group N motor mounts; ‘07 WRX 4-pot front calipers, cryo-treated slotted Tribeca rotors; Hawk HPS ferro-carbon pads; Frozenrotor rear slotted rotors; SS brake lines, Axxis Ultimate pads; Rota Torque 17x8 wheels; 245/40-17 Bridgestone RE01-R's; Koni inserts with Ground Control coilovers, Eibach springs; K-Mac camber/caster adjustable strut mounts; Urethane swaybar bushings; Bontrager rear sway bar; Urethane differential bushing; Custom Whiteline adjustable rear lateral links; Outlaw Engineering forged underdrive pulley; custom grind Web intake and exhaust cams (11 mm lift, 250° duration); solid lifters; CP custom aluminum forged 11 to 1 pistons, Brian Crower coated SS intake & exhaust valves; Brian Crower upgraded springs w/ titanium retainers; NGK sparkplugs; RallyBob (Bob Legere) ported and polished cylinder heads; Eagle H-beam rods; ACL Bearings; Cometic Head gaskets; ARP head studs & fasteners; Hydra Nemesis EMS; Wideband O2 sensor; 740cc Injectors; Walbro 255lph fuel pump; Upgraded WRX starter; Equal length SS headers (3 into 1); dual Magnaflow cat converters; 2 into 1 into 2 SS exhaust with Bullet muffler; OT Fiberglass hood; Oil pressure gauge; Programmable shift light, 2017 Subaru Forester XT, metallic dark gray, 29,xxx 2005 Porsche 911 Turbo S Cabrio, 24,xxx 2006 Subaru Outback LL Bean, 166,xxx sold 92 LSL Dark Teal, Smallcar Shift Kit - sold
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12-27-2016, 11:04 PM
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Re: Rich Chen's SVX
Hey guys -- Just checking into this thread, haven't been very active on any of my forums lately. :-) The car's doing well here in Northern California, doing just the occasional road journeys on weekends. Doing window regulator replacement during the holidays, but that's the only fix-it item at the moment. Might go to 16-in rims for a while, as they're more compliant for road use; we do pretty poorly for infrastructure around here, many bumps and potholes.
Last edited by SuperCarnitas; 12-27-2016 at 11:43 PM.
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